[deccan]

Originally posted by SamuraiProgrammer:

How to fix them? There are many ideas, I am sure, but one thing I would add is this. The odds of a ship hitting a mine in open space are quite small. Simply travelling in something other than the opitmal 'straight line' course would add only 2% to 5% to transit time but make it less and less likely to meet a mine. To simulate this, we should only be able to mine fixed installations such as planets and warp points.

How about simply small ships hard to be caught by mines, and perhaps include specialized small ships designed to slip by mines without sweeping them, and make large fleets without minesweepers very vulnerable to mines?